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Thompson let her baby die "not because of any error but because of antipathy" towards her child, Justice Hall told the court.

Destiny was only discovered a couple of months after her death, her body decomposing inside a cooler bag in a shed.

Until then, Thompson, who had five other children, had lied to people including her daughters, saying the baby was in the care of the Department for Child Protection because she needed a rest.

Thomson's landlord alerted the department, who then involved the police, after she inspected the property and found it in a disgusting state and the whereabouts of the baby unknown.

Defence counsel Helen Prince told Justice Hall that Thompson's borderline personality disorder and depression had affected her judgment and should be mitigating factors that reduced her sentence, along with the fact she had pleaded guilty.

Prosecutor Carmel Barbagallo rejected that, saying Thompson had refused help from welfare agencies and freely made the choice to use the illegal drug methylamphetamine, which had more of an impact on her ability to function than depression.